Instead of Abijah waxing mighty after Jeroboam’s death, Jeroboam reigned two years after Abijah’s death.
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Who was the mother of Abijah?
“He [Rehoboam] took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah” (2 Chron. xi, 20).
“His [Abijah’s] mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah” (2 Chron. xiii, 2).
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Was Asa the son or the grandson of Maachah?
“Forty and one years reigned he [Asa] in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom” (1 Kings xv, 10).